They're too busy trying to get by, argues Caroline Mortimer, a recent graduate.
Though the national unemployment rate recently dropped, many are still looking for work, or trying to get by while underemployed.
Exotic as we may sound to some, we are a people just trying to get by and as bewildered by American politics and jusiprudence as the next guy.
"When you're a small pizza operator trying to get by on tight margins, regulations like this really affect your bottom line, hurting your ability to grow and hire, " Domino's Pizza franchisee Jonathan Sharp of Abilene, Texas, said last summer.
Think what that says to middle-class American families who are trying to get by, who are paying their taxes and paying at a rate higher than Warren Buffett or numbers of millionaires and billionaires across the country -- that one side's answer to that is, well, the wealthy -- it should be an option.
You know, people struggle with the day-to-day realities of trying to get by and making ends meet, but in suburban communities, particularly ones where this is a recent phenomenon and a particularly rapid phenomenon, they often don't have the same sorts of services and infrastructure in place to address the challenges that come along with a growing poor population.
At a time when Americans are losing their homes to foreclosure, folks are trying to get by after layoffs, people are struggling with lack of healthcare, and we're facing pressing environmental issues, it's ludicrous to slam the little man and woman who isn't asking the government for handouts, but is doing what they can to make their neighborhood and city better.
Some corporate Web sites, claiming they've been hijacked, are trying to get even by suing.
"It's almost like there's a cottage industry of people now trying to get famous by turning things into a meme, " he said.
In an October 26 interview with Brandon Cotter, ZenCash CEO, I learned that the company was founded because of the pain that Cotter suffered early in his career in trying to get paid by his customers.
He is also working to to enhance his winnings by trying to get big banks to repurchase loans that were sold during the credit boom, but that he purchased at a big discount.
It was not simply a few athletes trying to get an edge by surreptitious use of banned substances.
Standards are almost never negotiated among companies with proprietary architectures in an industry because the negotiations occur within a context where the representatives have the mindset of representing their proprietary architecture and trying not to get gored by the process.
As far as competition, big hotels are trying to fend off HomeAway by in some markets trying to get legislation passed to ban vacation rentals.
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Krys hoped to make up for this mistake by trying to get a British Virgin Islands court to negate the trade with Baupost.
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The government is trying to fix the economy not just by cutting the deficit, and eventually debt, but also by trying to get the economy into the right shape so it can compete internationally.
"FEMA officials did make some attempts to identify the extent of the formaldehyde problem, but they did so by trying to get an accurate tally of complaints from occupants rather than testing occupied units, " the report says.
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The Governator is trying to get that ruling overturned by appealing to the Supreme Court.
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Some countries are now trying to get round these problems by harmonisation or mutual recognition of standards.
With Xbox Music, Microsoft is trying to get into digital music by once again bringing a product to people who already have been using the same services for years.
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Maxfield kept heading toward the finish only to be stopped by a security official trying to get her out of harm's way.
Cohen is starting off by trying to get the University of Pennsylvania to adopt Coursekit.
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They were just trying to get out of the penalties by pleading that they had relied on professionals.
Sometimes people blow a fuse by trying to get their wipers to move when they're stuck to the windscreen.
Its president, Minoru (Ben) Makihara, London-born, Harvard-educated, has responded by trying to get into everything from energy pipelines to satellite broadcasting.
Schools are trying to get ahead of the problem by implementing baseline testing to measure cognitive ability before and after an injury.
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The trust said it was trying to get the figures under control by speeding up the process of discharging a patient to a community hospital or care home.
The Scottish government did not endorse the expert panel's findings and are now trying to get the royal charter proposed by the leaders of the main UK parties amended to make it comply with Scots law.
But despite City boss Stuart Pearce setting his stall out by trying to get as many men behind the ball as possible, there was a sense of the inevitable when the Gunners made the early breakthrough.
But her claim to have opposed the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere" in Alaska has been called into question, and she faces an investigation into allegations that she abused her office by trying to get her former brother-in-law fired from the Alaska State Troopers.
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